What City Observatory Did This Week Is it time to address the problem of "Missing Massive" housing? This past week marked the latest convening of YIMBYTown, this year, held in Austin, Texas. One of the perennial topics was state strategies to promote "missing middle" housing—as evidenced by multiple initiatives to allow duplexes, triplexes and four-plexes in what have been exclusively single family zones. There's real merit to missing middle reform, but the housing supply and affordability problem likely requires a much larger scale solution. Alex Armlovich coined the term "Missing Massive" to highlight the need to build taller and denser in those transit-served, amenity-rich, opportunity-proximate places where demand supports more housing. As we've pointed out at City Observatory, by definition, taller, higher density buildings require that less land be redeveloped to produce any given number of new housing units.
Love it! "Missing massive." You guys finally came out and said it.
Let's make American cities into Hong Kong! A few square feet for the masses! Build equity for the landlords! No more privacy; listen to your neighbors walking across your ceiling! Didn't Joni Mitchell have a hit song about this?
Love it! "Missing massive." You guys finally came out and said it.
Let's make American cities into Hong Kong! A few square feet for the masses! Build equity for the landlords! No more privacy; listen to your neighbors walking across your ceiling! Didn't Joni Mitchell have a hit song about this?